September 2018 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEF Dr. Victor Cha What is both amazing and depressing about the diplomacy following the Singapore Summit are the constants that have re-emerged following a period of the most dramatic change on the peninsula in decades....

20 August 2018 | KOREA CHAIR EXPLAINS Dr Ramon Pacheco Pardo South Korean media report that the US has proposed to North Korea the possibility of shipping half of its nuclear warheads to the United Kingdom, where they would be dismantled. Reports also state that US...

July 2018 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEF Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo South Korean President Moon Jae-in is in the middle of a trip to India and Singapore. This visits fits within Seoul’s ‘New Southern Policy’, an effort by the Moon government to strengthen economic and...

June 2018 | KF-VUB KOREA CHAIR POLICY BRIEF Dr. Jung H. Pak Last fall and winter, the world was tense with the real possibilities of a military conflict breaking out on the Korean Peninsula as a result of Kim Jong-un’s testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles,...